1535
| 1535 • Battle of Bornholm: Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy. |
1607
Age: 72y
| 1607 • The ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine. English colonists establish a Fort St. George, also known as the Popham Colony. The settlement lasts little more than a year, before residents return to England in the first ocean going ship built in the New World, a 30-ton pinnace called The Virginia. |